Apart from the five-year Master's degree, we offer a choice of three-year professional diploma (licenciate) courses. Its graduates may pursue complementary Master's degree courses, postgraduate and doctoral degree studies

Date of commencement

The academic year commences on 1st of October and is divided into two semesters: the winter semester and the summer one with a weekly break between them and summer holidays from July 1 till September 30

Class size

From 6 to 30 persons

Accommodation

The university offers 2,800 beds in seven dormitories (rooms for 2 and 3 students). The University also offers rooms of high standard in a recently refurbished dormitory "Babilon".

Financial assistance

The following financial assistance for full-time Polish students is available:

Since 1998 another form of financial help has been offered. All Polish students who begin studying before the age of 25 may apply to a bank for a loan. The loan is paid in the monthly installments. Students pay back the loan on finishing the study and the period of repayment is twice as long as the period of taking the loan.

Admission requirements

The admission of foreigners into the University is regulated by the following legal acts: The regulations of the Minister of Education from 3 October 1991 and 29 November 1995 as well as the respective regulations of Maria Curie-Sklodowska University. Foreigners must submit a certificate qualifying them for university education in the country of their permanent residence corresponding to the relevant Polish documents, medical certificate of good health condition, the confirmation from the university students apply to and the confirmation of a satisfactory command of Polish.

Environmental Protection (in cooperation with the Faculty of Chemistry)

Dean: prof.dr. hab. Ryszard Debicki, tel.: + 48 81 537 52 16

Institutes and Chairs:
Institute of Microbiology and Biotechnology
Institute of Biology
Institute of Earth Sciences
Department of Biochemistry

Major Fields of Research:
1. Cellular and molecular aspects of living processes of micro-organisms and living organisms.
2. Application of genetically modified micro-organisms and eucariotic tissues in biotechnology.
3. Function and structure of plant and animal organisms in various living conditions.
4. Flora and fauna of the world and Poland's regions: resources, transformations, protection.
5. Didactic of biology, geography and environmental protection on various levels of education. 6. Biotechnological methods in environmental protection.
7. Contribution of bacteria, fungi and actinomycetes in the biotransformation of plant polimers.
8. Physico-chemical basis of chromatographic separation methods of mixture analysis.
9. Present-day evolution of SE Poland and polar regions environments as a basis of reasonable management of nature resources and its protection.
10. Problems of Geomorphology and Palaeogeography of Polish Quaternary and selected areas of the world with a particular interest in loess sediments issues. 11. Global climate changes as an environment modelling factor on a region and local scale. 12. Structural transformations of the social and economic conditions in borderland area.

Institutes and Chairs:
Institute of Administration and Public Law
Institute of Penal Law
Institute of Civil Law
Institute of History and Theory of Law and State
Chair of Civil Procedure and International Commercial Law Chair of European Union Law Chair of Constitutional Law Chair of Financial Law Chair of Theory of Organization and Management Chair of Administrative Law Chair of International Public Law Chair of Agricultural Law and Estate Management Chair of Administrative Procedure Chair of Economic and Commercial Law Chair of Penal Law and Criminology Chair of Criminal Procedure Chair of Criminalistics and Evidence Law Chair of Comparative Penal Law Chair of History of State and Law Chair of Theory of State and Law Chair of Roman Law

Major Fields of Research:
1. Theory of law, the sources of its making, policy of law, the law making process, application and reception of law, state, its institutions. 2. Courts and judiciary law on the Polish territories in the 19th and 20th centuries. 3. Private Roman law and penal Roman law. 4. Political and legal thought in the Renaissance and Enlightenment. 5. Penal law with respect to its reform, crime and petty offence. 6. Legal comparative analysis of penal responsibility. 7. Law of industrial property, polish matrimonial law, commercial companies, state enterprise, law of intellectual property. 8. Real estate mortgage and land mortgage register, legal securing of credit, circulation of claims. 9. Polish food law, agricultural law. 10. Administrative law, the rules of the code of administrative procedure. 11. Constitutional law of the Polish Republic and other states. 12. The law of environmental conservation and of planning public economic activities. 13. Territorial self–government of the Polish Republic and other states. 14. Employment market and labour law. 15. Civil and legal aspects of notariate. 16. State taxes and local rates, foreign currency law, bank law. 17. International public law. 18. European and Polish civil judiciary law bankruptcy law. 19. Insurance law and its adjustment to European law. 20. Sources of law of the European Community, law of trade marks, advertisements.

5. Faculty of Humanities

Fields of Study:

Modern languages and literature

French

German

English

Russian

Slavonic languages (others)

Romance languages

Archaeology

History

Arts and humanities (others)

Culture Studies

Dean: Prof.dr hab. Henryk Gmiterek, tel.: + 48 81 537 54 66

Institutes and Chairs:
Institute of English Studies
Institute of Polish Studies
Institute of Slavonic Studies
Institute of History
Institute of German Studies
Division of Romance Studies
Division of Logopedics and Applied Linguistics
Division of Cultural Studies
Chair of Archaeology Centre for Jewish Studies

Major Fields of Research:
1. History: Ethnic borderlands in South Eastern Poland; transformation and inter-penetration of values and models. Poland's relationship with her neighbours: from the Middle Ages to the present day. History of Polish emigration. Means of social communication in Poland: the domains of writing and custom. Ancient navigation. Domestic politics in ancient Rome in the period of the late Republic and the early Empire. 2. Archaeology: Primaeval history and early Middle Ages in Central-Eastern Poland against the background of the primaeval history of Central-Eastern Europe. 3. Polish Studies: History of Polish literature (interpretation and editing of literary texts from the Middle Ages to contemporary times). Linguistics (semantics and phraseology). Ethnolinguistics (the problem of value and evaluation in culture). 4. Logopedy: Language communication: its conditions and disorders. 5. English Studies: English and American literature, history and culture. English linguistics. Utopian studies. Literary theory. Film and media studies. 6. Romance Studies: Romance literatures and linguistics. 7. German Studies: German literature, culture and linguistics. 8. Slavonic Studies: Russian, Belarussian, Ukrainian and Bulgarian literature, culture and linguistics.

6. Faculty of Economics

Fields of Study:

Economics,

Marketing and Management,

Application of IT in Economics

Dean: prof.dr hab. Elzbieta Skrzypek, tel.: + 48 81 537 54 62

Institutes and Chairs:
Institute of Economics
Institute of Socio-Economic Development Theory
Institute of Marketing and Management

Major Fields of Research:
1. Restructuring Process of Integration 2. Consulting Companies in Poland 3. Structural Changes in World Economy 4. Social, Economic and Spatial Policies in the Process of Transformation of Polish Economy 5. Polish Banking and Tax System 6. Labour Market in the Process of Systemic Transformation 7. Factors and Strategies of Regional Development 8. Local Governments' Finances and Economy 9. Restructuring and Privatisation of Public Enterprises 10. The Role of Small and Medium Firms in Development of Entrepreneurship 11. Psychological Aspects of Managerial Strategies 12. European Economic Integration

Major Fields of Research:
1. Social and personality aspects of talent; their intellectual, creative and emotional determinants. 2. Determinants of effective functioning in various social roles with special emphasis upon the family system. 3. Psycho-social adaptation of the disabled and socially maladjusted. 4. Role of language in cognitive processes from the developmental and pathological point of view. 5. Functional asymmetry of the brain. 6. Problems of education and training of teachers, children and adults in Poland during a time of political transformation. 7. Improvement of the educational processes of different categories of children and youngsters during a time of social and political transformation in Poland.
8. Faculty of Philosophy and Sociology

European Studies of Philosophy and History (Philosophy and European Studies, History and European Studies),

Sociology (Animation of Culture, Promotion of Health and Social Work, Sociology of Economy and Organization, Local Development)

Dean: prof.dr hab. Jacek Pasniczek, tel.: + 48 81 537 54 80

Institutes and Chairs:
Institute of Philosophy
Institute of Sociology

Major Fields of Research:
1. The logic of intentional objects. 2. Ways of comparing theories. 3. Bertrand Russell – ontological and epistemological works. 4. Empirical theory of linguistic communication. 5. Formal linguistics in artificial intelligence research. 6. Causal theory of reference. 7. Aristotle's and mediaeval philosophers' logic, methodology and epistemology. 8. Philosophy of Lvov – Warsaw School. 9. History of the idea of freedom in European philosophical and political thought. 10. History of the theory of values. 11. Regulatory and informational conditions of the formation and functioning of human subjectiveness. 12. The role of pain and suffering in knowledge. 13. Non-assumption as a transcendental condition of the truth and objectivity of knowledge. 14. Epistemological foundations of quantum mechanics. 15. Social determination of knowledge. 16. Bioethics; moral problems of medicine. 17. Truth in arts. 18. The essence of philosophy and its role in European culture. 19. History of Polish ethics and social thought. 20. The conception of „cultural standard” in anthropology. 21. Buddhist ecumenism. 22. Polish family in the period of intensive economical and social changes. 23. The disabled in Polish society. 24. Education in performing social roles at primary schools. 25. Sociology of village and agriculture; Polish farmers' systems of values. 26. Catholic social teaching.

9. Faculty of Political Science

Fields of Study:

Political Science and Government,

International Relations,

Journalism,

Local Government and Politics

Dean: prof. dr hab. Stanislaw Michalowski, tel.:+48 81 532 39 21

Institutes and Chairs: Division of International Relations Division of 19th/20th Century Political Thought Division of Political Movements Division of Political Systems Division of the Sociology and Politics Division of Human Rights Division of Journalism Division of Ethnic Research Division of Local Government and Politics

Major Fields of Research:
1. European Integration 2. Modern international relations, with a particular interest in theory of international relations: decisions - making in politics and political adaptation. Political values in international relations. 3. Problems of international ecological security. 4. Modern political thought in Poland, with particular interest in: the agrarian and workers' movements, national-democracy, conservative movement, the „sanacja regime”. 5. Contemporary social thought and political movements in Poland and the world, including social-democratic, agrarian, Christian-democratic, and populist movements. 6. Contemporary political, party and electoral systems: party systems and electoral law in former East-Central European countries, transformations of the political culture of Polish society. 7. Sociology of politics: state, society, political power, social conflict, social groups, political elite, bureaucracy, social policy, feminism, political marketing. 8. Human rights protection in East-Central Europe, protection of prisoners’ legal rights. 9. Systemic transformation of mass media in Poland. 10. Ethnic issues, including: Polish emigration and national minorities. 11. System and functions of local government, sociology of local communities, regional policy, professional, cooperative and commercial self-government.

Major Fields of Research:
1. Music and related arts. 2. History of polish music. 3. Contemporary polish choral music. 4. Sacred choral music. 5. Conducting choir. 6. History of Music education. 7. New ideas in music education. 8. Transforming in music education. 9. Psychological foundation of music and music education. 10. Tests in music education. 11. Cultural, psychological and civilizational problems of the XXth century'sart in the aspect of individual, pictorial decisions. 12. Works in the scope of new, information (computer) technologies used in the process of artistic education. 13. The application of digital techniques and serigraphy in graphic design. 14. The application of digital techniques in the stages of projecting and making big format prints. 15. Exploring the influence of colour structures on the increasment of the sculptural forms to raise of expression. 16. Research on the artistic life in the half of the XXth cccentury in Poland and in Lublin.

About Maria Curie-Sklodowska University

The University was founded in 1944. It was named after the great Polish scientist – Maria Curie-Sklodowska. Originally it consisted of four faculties: Medical Faculty, Agricultural Faculty, Veterinary Faculty, and the Faculty of Natural Sciences. Within the next three months the Faculty of Pharmacy was founded. The first opening ceremony was held on 14 January 1945. Since that time some of the faculties were separated from the University to form new universities: Medical Academy, Agricultural Academy and Technical University. The University has consistently expanded its structure, adapting to the growing academic standards as well as to the demands of changing social conditions. In 1969 the University opened a new branch in Rzeszˇw with the Faculty of Law and Administration and the Faculty of Economics, both closely connected with respective faculties in Lublin. Currently, it offers an extensive range of education possibilities in ten.faculties.

The majority of the University departments are situated on the University Campus - a picturesque and architecturally interesting district of Lublin. The University boasts modern and well-equipped lecture rooms, laboratories, and faculty offices as well as Main Library and a network of faculty libraries.

The University offers extensive students` facilities including halls of residence, a canteen, and a clinic.

An important part of life of the academic community is student culture and important place for the development of student culture is the Academic Culture Centre "Chatka Zaka". Many artistic and creative groups are based in "Chatka Zaka" amongst them are: the Folk Dance Ensemble, The Jadwiga Czerwinska Academic Choir, the "Studyjne" Cinema, the Film Club Bariera, the Impetus Ballroom Dancing Group, St Nicholas Orchestra, Poetic Theatre, the "Szuflada" Theatre, "Akme" Ballet Group, "Kont" Gallery, the Photographic Club, and the Artistic Workshop. Academic Radio "Centrum" is one of the few academic radio stations in Poland that broadcast a 24-hour programme. The University Sports Club AZS UMCS offers a comprehensive choice of sports and recreational facilities in the Academic Sports Centre. Our University has The Polish Language and Culture Centre for Polish People from Abroad and Foreigners. The Centre offers a variety of forms of study, programmes can be adjusted to individual needs and expectations in terms of time, duration and contents.

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